Shadewood integrity, faith and crocodile tears

And just like that, everything looked up for him. He didn’t have to worry about furious parents coming to get their kid back into the birth pack, his worries of the youth possibly crafting some kind of family drama in the peaceful sorority he oversaw faded away into oblivion as those slender shoulders rose to deter them. Only the blissful part was that it hadn’t . 

Continuing the walk from Shadewood’s forestry front, he called back to the coal youth. “What a shame. Then you have a fair day, miss.” It did well to illustrate he wasn’t embarking on this trip because of her, but it was a preplanned thing before she had even arrived. Whether she chose to change her mind or not and tag along would not have changed their course as they were heading to the winterlands regardless.